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. 2012 Jun;54(6):393–396. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.03.014

Table 2.

Prevalence and associated factors for four risk behaviors, stratified by sex, among adolescents from the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort study: 2008 follow-up.

Risk factors Smoking Alcohol intake Low fruit intake Physical inactivity Males (n = 1936)
Females (n = 2054)
O (%) E (%) O/E (95%CI) O (%) E (%) O/E (95%CI)
4 + + + + 1.5 0.4 3.6 (2.8–4.5) 2.7 1.1 2.4 (1.8–3.1)
3 + + + 0.6 0.3 1.8 (1.3–2.5) 0.6 0.2 3.4 (2.7–4.3)
+ + + 0.5 0.2 3.3 (2.6–4.2) 0.7 0.5 1.5 (1.0–2.1)
+ + + 0.7 1.4 0.5 (0.3–1.0) 1.5 3.1 0.5 (0.2–0,9)
+ + + 8.2 8.9 0.9 (0.5; 1.4) 11.9 15.2 0.8 (0.5; 1.3)
2 + + 0.3 0.1 2.6 (1.9–3.4) 0.3 0.1 4.0 (3.2–;4.9)
+ + 0.3 0.5 0.6 (0.3–1.1) 0.6 1.3 0.5 (0.2–0.9)
+ + 0.6 1.1 0.5 (0.3–1.0) 0.2 0.5 0.4 (0.2–0.8)
+ + 6.8 6.9 1.0 (0.6–1.5) 3.3 2.4 1.4 (1.0–2.0)
+ + 2.5 3.2 0.8 (0.4–1.3) 5.9 6.4 0.9 (0.5–1.4)
+ + 31.9 30.7 1.0 (0.6–1.5) 43.5 41.4 1.1 (0.7–1.7)
1 + 0.2 0.4 0.5 (0.3–1.0) 0.3 0.2 1.5 (1.0–2.1)
+ 2.3 2.5 0.9 (0.5–1.4) 1.6 1.0 1.6 (1.1–2.2)
+ 23.2 23.7 1.0 (0.6–1.5) 6.7 6.5 1.0 (0.6–1.6)
+ 11.0 11.1 1.0 (0.6–1.5) 16.8 17.5 1.0 (0.6–1.6)
0 9.7 8.6 1.1 (0.7–1.7) 3.6 2.7 1.3 (0.9–1.9)

O: observed; E: expected.

+ Factor present ; − Factor absent.